Arcade Legends "Foley" In trouble.. Too bad he's a nice guy

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Arcade Legends "Foley" In trouble.. Too bad he's a nice guy

Two indicted over theft of arcade software
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, July 10, 2009


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Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they stole arcade-game software belonging to a San Jose company.


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David Russell Foley of Los Gatos and Michael Daddona were named in a 35-count indictment unsealed this week. The indictment, handed up July 1 by a grand jury in San Jose, includes charges of conspiracy, trafficking in counterfeit goods, theft of trade secrets, mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud.

Foley pleaded not guilty Wednesday and was released on $100,000 bond.

Foley owned UltraCade Technologies in San Jose, which produced game packs, collections of video games that could be loaded onto arcade video-game machines. Foley sold his company and its intellectual property to Global VR of San Jose in June 2006.

But just before he sold UltraCade, Foley made game packs at his home using a burner stolen from UltraCade, the indictment said.

Foley was fired from the company, but for the next two years, he kept the proprietary code and trade secrets now belonging to Global VR and "secretly manufactured and sold game packs with counterfeit markings belonging to Global VR for his own financial benefit," the indictment said.

In doing so, Foley stole the code that enabled consumers to play Global VR games - as well as those licensed to other companies including Namco, Nintendo and Taito - on video-arcade game platforms belonging to Global VR, authorities said.

Foley sold the game packs he made to Automated Services, a Connecticut arcade-game company owned by Daddona, the indictment said. Daddona advertised the game packs on eBay at a lower price and sold them to customers across the country, authorities said.

Foley also sold a burner to Daddona, enabling Daddona to make game packs, the indictment said.

E-mail Henry K. Lee at [email protected].



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There is a thread about this already, foley pops in it for a while and then again under a different name.
 
There is a thread about this already, foley pops in it for a while and then again under a different name.


Unless this guy is a super idiot I would think that was an impostor although I have been know to underestimate intelligence. :D
 
KPI_Kid
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Every one of them in that thread taking up for Foley.
 
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahaha.

*hic!*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahaha.

Sorry. Please continue.

(giggling)
 
He actually is a nice guy. He helped me out from his house on a problem with a cabinet from his previous company. Give him a chance. I read all threads, seems like everyone is convicting before he even got a chance to defend himself.

If you do some research has actually has done some cool stuff. Hyperspin and other items are out there he has led and did an awesome job on. Frankly he is one of few old gamers that are still in the states that hasn't gone to ms/sony/nintendo....
 
He actually is a nice guy. He helped me out from his house on a problem with a cabinet from his previous company. Give him a chance. I read all threads, seems like everyone is convicting before he even got a chance to defend himself.

If you do some research has actually has done some cool stuff. Hyperspin and other items are out there he has led and did an awesome job on. Frankly he is one of few old gamers that are still in the states that hasn't gone to ms/sony/nintendo....

Being an actual Coin-Op customer of Hyperware/Ultracade/GlobalVR I can also say that Dave has helped me lots of times in the past. I think he even answered the phone at UC when I called at like 7:30 one night.

I dont think Dave would be so crazy as to create a company from the ground up based solely on stolen IP. Then theres GlobalVR. Do any of us think for a second that they would buy UC if there were underlying issues? GVR is backed by people that have been in this industry since its beginnings. They know what to look for in a case like this.

Matt
 
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